So I have had the opportunity to do the Alexander raid in FFXIV and it was without a doubt one of the best raiding experiences I have had in FFXIV let alone my gaming career. Absolutely incredible!
Galactics Clear – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0X6_wFCf0g
0:00 What I Didn’t Expect
0:32 Into The Machine
5:09 The Story Of Alexander
7:52 The Soul Of The Creator
11:24 The Epic of Alexander (TEA)
15:26 King Slayer
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Yo dawg, we heard you like Alexander, so we had Alexander summon Alexander.
TEA is a lot of fun.
Without spoiling other FF games for you, the final design of Alexander here, Alexander Prime, comes from FF9, as well as a certain reference on something important it could have done but didn’t. This Raid Series was amazing, and I do wanna do Ultimates one day soon.
Invincible! A great song in multiple games, and you'll see the title come up again as the theme for a certain someone whose ideals are … inviolate. 🎼
Yeah Alexander was always one of the more rougher raid series in the game. When it released, SE were still fiddling around with what level of difficulty was good for the game as a whole. Alexander from my memory was referred to as being really overtuned at the time.
I never thought saying the best non spoiler spoiler joke from this raid being
"I can't believe what could've been the greatest raid groups to have existed got snapped to dust by pepsi man"
Ah Alexander, the raid series with songs that were 8 years ahead of their time.
Our world's a fantasy, no more than a test
Ever feeding off the fallacy creating this mess
Deep down inside this bleak machine with all of the rest
Break free! Two-phase, two-phase electricity
Time turning up the volume
Time turning on us always
No time enough tomorrow
'Fore turning back to where we began
Twenty-two sectors tested
Fragments in one direction
Celestial noise detected
Delirium unsuspected
Thordan also has an Ultimate that would be a great experience to react to and share thoughts on
Yeah Ultimates are super sick, 5 of them so far, 6 by the end of this year, and Ultimates are even harder blind! (not that I personally want to do one like that but the option is always there for ppl looking for the genuine hardest stuff in the genre)
The raids are optional content, so their stories are self-contained, but they do tie into the MSQ in later expansions. Completing Alexander adds to the depth of Shadowbringers.
The Echo WoW RWF team has progged a few FFXIV Ultimates now, and they don't figure them out as quickly as they can clear WoW raids. DSR took them a few months.
Funny enough, I'm playing on EU and I've seen pretty large amount of "Perfect Legend" players. As well as "Heavenly Legend" and "Alpha Legend" players. Maybe it's because I myself did Ultimate and I have one of the Legend titles, or maybe it's just how it is, but still – there is a huge amount of players that do this content even if percentile-wise it's not that huge.
5:50 simple rule of thumb is to check the Japanese pronunciation. In this case it's mee-deh. So Mead if you feel weird going all in with the Japanese.
small correction you must have miss heard me but the fight is about 16 and a half minutes not 20, it also took us 4 months of 8 hour a week prog, the fight came out in the begining of shadowbringers
The epic of alexander (normal)
TEA was amazing. If you have a chance to do it I highly recommend. Very very fun fight.
Hard to believe the Alex raid started because of cheese.
No im not kidding, check out Bayflox Longstop Hard again
4:30 Love your enjoying the difference in music. Wish you could react to "15 Years of WoW vs 1 Year of FFXIV" by Jesses Cox he touches on this exact point. You can of course as long as you classify everything as "man in a room" content.
9:37 Oh if only you were the tank at that point. You would've been subjected to a tank rite of passage. RIP CaptainGrim.
As an Ultimate raider this one will kill your will if you do it first but it’s a better experience than the others for a first time if you can handle it.
the Alexander Raids are among my favorite in the game! my WAR glam is based around the axe and top
You say you're having trouble with MINE extremes, but want to try savage. The former is easier though, I suppose if you don't MINE the savage is can be easier… xD
Did ppl explain the orbs on Alexander prime and where Alexander is sending you through them btw? Imo it's such an amazing yet subtle story part.
Forward and back and then forward and back again
the heavensward alliance raid is awesome!
cruise chaser's theme and Alexanders theme are two of the most amazing songs in FFXIV
All the raid series have a lot of very juicy lore in them with major implications for later stories, which is part of why eventually they made Crystal Tower required for the MSQ; there's stuff hinted at that you can only see by doing multiple raid/trial series across multiple expansions and completing all the role quests that flows into stuff all the way into Endwalker and which your character can acknowledge with bonus dialogue if you've done it, otherwise a side character has to exposit for you.
If you thought the Alexander Normal Raids were something, you will absolutely love the HW Alliance Raids.
Non-spoiler, let's just say that it's recommended to complete these three ARR Lv50 dungeons:
The Lost City of Amdapor
Amdapor Keep Normal and Hard.
The most fascinating aspect of Alexander is that it was fully aware of how dangerous it was to the world. Hence why it created the chain of events that it did to prevent itself from being a threat.
I mean, just it moving started to drain the land around it of Aether. Let alone when it actually uses ita ability to manipulate time on a larger scale
From what I've heard (at least until EW), the challenge of Ultimates is that you dont have any downtime, no door-boss mechanic (meaning, as you said, you start at stage 1 if you die) and that it takes 20 minutes. Mechanic-wise its not as hard as savage, but you have to remember a 20 minute fight. Thats the hard part. Supposedly. I've done savage in ShB and EW, but no Ultimates.
One day, you'll do your first ultimate – and get the itch like the rest of us adult gamers to get the next and the next. UwU is a great intro ultimate and is clearable in a month or so of 6-9 hours per week. UCoB is more like 1.5 months, even though it was the first ultimate released. Can't cheese UCOB as much, so the fight's like 17 minutes vs UwU's 12-13ish.
Psybear blind progged (not recommended lol) UwU right before Dawntrail's release. And the dude running the big blue purple channel I think pugged UwU in like a week or two? Point is, it's a great stepping stone to get into ultimates and isn't too crazy for mythic WoW-level raiders, potentially even AOTC raiders.
Where is the L in "MILNE"?
The only song I remember from WoW is the one that plays while fighting Ragnaros.
The Epic of Alexander was released during Shadowbringers.
A little anecdote about "Moebius" the OST of Soul of the Creator: During Eorzean Symphony, they "timestop" the orchestra, the musicians stop playing and freeze in position (the conductor too) and Soken and Yoshida come and cross the room playing a drum and marching band chimes. The whole room was on the floor laughing^^
The Alexander Raids are just SO GOOD. They're tricky, fun fights, linked with a FANTASTIC story with some real heart. I love the Gobbies. I love the implication that Alexander itself is trying to thwart the Illuminati. I love how this series winds up being one of many, many seemingly unrelated things that will end up being important later. THIS GAME.
The ultimates really are the epitome of a “Boss Rush” mode. I’ve only had some experience in The Ultimate Coil of Bahamut and one of the Endwalker ultimates, but they’re really no joke.
Doing it at MINE, is the closest you can get to the original difficulty when it was newly release. Just the way it is with the current expansion raid…
Mide's name hails from the Doma Region, so it follows japanese pronunciations.
Me – Deh.
😀 I loved the Alexander raid series, SO rare for time travel stories to be done well, and SE did fantastically pulling off the time loop concept in a way that made sense.
7:40 tbf, Y'shtola, Cid, and the WoL can solve 99% of the realm's problems by themselves.
Alexander has always been an infamous and fan favorite raid series to many (myself included). I'm still desperately hoping thst he gets the "$200 emote that comes with a free statue" treatment like omega got a bit ago. Also with Oppressor being the current pvp series mount, I'm hoping some time in future we somehow get brute justice as one lol.